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is a tool, supporting all the steps of Extraction, Transformation and Load process.
Now a days Informatica is also being used as an Integration tool.
Informatica is an easy to use tool. It has got a simple visual interface like forms in visual basic.
You just need to drag and drop different objects (known as transformations) and design process
flow for Data extraction transformation and load. These process flow diagrams are known as
. Once a mapping is made, it can be scheduled to run as and when required. In the
background Informatica server takes care of fetching data from source, transforming it, &
loading it to the target systems/databases.
Before we start actually working in Informatica, letº have an idea about the company owning
this wonderful product.
Q. How to execute PL/SQL script from Informatica mapping?
Q. How can you define a transformation? What are different types of transformations available
in Informatica?
Q. What is a source qualifier? What is meant by Query Override?
Q. What is aggregator transformation?
Q. What is Incremental Aggregation?
Q. How Union Transformation is used?
Q. Can two flat files be joined with Joiner Transformation?
Q. What is a look up transformation?
Q. Can a lookup be done on Flat Files?
Q. What are Connected and Unconnected Lookups?
Q. What is a mapplet?
Q. What does reusable transformation mean?
Q. What is update strategy and what are the options for update strategy?
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O Informix
O Microsoft Access
O Microsoft Excel
O Microsoft SQL Server
O Oracle
O Sybase
O Teradata
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A. A transformation is a repository object that generates, modifies, or passes data. The Designer
provides a set of transformations that perform specific functions. For example, an Aggregator
transformation performs calculations on groups of data. Below are the various transformations
available in Informatica:
O Aggregator
O Application Source Qualifier
O Custom
O Expression
O External Procedure
O Filter
O Input
O Joiner
O Lookup
O Normalizer
O Output
O Rank
O Router
O Sequence enerator
O Sorter
O Source Qualifier
O Stored Procedure
O Transaction Control
O Union
O Update Strategy
O XML enerator
O XML Parser
O XML Source Qualifier
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A. Source Qualifier represents the rows that the PowerCenter Server reads from a relational or
flat file source when it runs a session. When a relational or a flat file source definition is added to
a mapping, it is connected to a Source Qualifier transformation.
PowerCenter Server generates a query for each Source Qualifier Transformation whenever it
runs the session. The default query is SELET statement containing all the source columns.
Source Qualifier has capability to override this default query by changing the default settings of
the transformation properties. The list of selected ports or the order they appear in the default
query should not be changed in overridden query.
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Aggregator Transformation contains group by ports that indicate how to group the data. While
grouping the data, the aggregator transformation outputs the last row of each group unless
otherwise specified in the transformation properties.
Various group by functions available in Informatica are : AV, COUNT, FIRST, LAST, MAX,
MEDIAN, MIN, PERCENTILE, STDDEV, SUM, VARIANCE.
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A. Whenever a session is created for a mapping Aggregate Transformation, the session option
for Incremental Aggregation can be enabled. When PowerCenter performs incremental
aggregation, it passes new source data through the mapping and uses historical cache data to
perform new aggregation calculations incrementally.
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A. The union transformation is a multiple input group transformation that can be used to merge
data from various sources (or pipelines). This transformation works just like UNION ALL
statement in SQL, that is used to combine result set of two SELECT statements.
A. Yes, joiner transformation can be used to join data from two flat file sources.
A. This transformation is used to lookup data in a flat file or a relational table, view or synonym.
It compares lookup transformation ports (input ports) to the source column values based on the
lookup condition. Later returned values can be passed to other transformations.
A. Yes.
A. Connected lookup takes input values directly from other transformations in the pipleline.
Unconnected lookup doesnº take inputs directly from any other transformation, but it can be
used in any transformation (like expression) and can be invoked as a function using :LKP
expression. So, an unconnected lookup can be called multiple times in a mapping.
A. A mapplet is a reusable object that is created using mapplet designer. The mapplet contains
set of transformations and it allows us to reuse that transformation logic in multiple mappings.
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A. Informatica processes the source data row-by-row. By default every row is marked to be
inserted in the target table. If the row has to be updated/inserted based on some logic Update
Strategy transformation is used. The condition can be specified in Update Strategy to mark the
processed row for update or insert.
O DD_INSERT : If this is used the Update Strategy flags the row for insertion. Equivalent
numeric value of DD_INSERT is 0.
O DD_UPDATE : If this is used the Update Strategy flags the row for update. Equivalent
numeric value of DD_UPDATE is 1.
O DD_DELETE : If this is used the Update Strategy flags the row for deletion. Equivalent
numeric value of DD_DELETE is 2.
O DD_REJECT : If this is used the Update Strategy flags the row for rejection. Equivalent
numeric value of DD_REJECT is 3.